The box here:

I like having a box over here. It lends a symmetry to the site, and it keeps the lines of text from the entries from getting overly long. As I learned in my short term of newspaper-editing in middle school, long lines of text are harder for people to read, since they're more likes to skip lines or repeat lines when their eyes have farther to travel. So I like having this little box over here.

The problem is, a flooble chatterbox seems to be the only thing I can put here. Nothing else will show up. I've tried contacting xanga about it, but even though xanga has improved itself by allowing free image hosting, the customer service isn't quite up to scratch. They don't seem to respond to emails. So, just to keep the layout, I leave this expired chatterbox laying around, even though it looks kinda messy.

(Perhaps you ask why I have an expired one, and not an active one? Because people don't write on my chatterbox. It became me talking to myself with entries just to keep the damn thing active. Not much chatter. Also, though I used to like the concept of having a chatterbox on my page, the idea doesn't appeal to me so much anymore. I'd rather have something else, or, hell, even just an empty box! I can't even get that, though. It's a chatterbox or nothing.)

I also tried doing a replace-text-thingy, like I did on my French xanga, but that didn't work. ('Smatterafact, I can't get that code to work anywhere except where I put it long, long ago. Xanga doesn't seem to want to accept it unless it was stuck on the site about two years in the past.) And thus, here I am, stuck with an expired chatterbox that annoys me increasingly every day that I look at it, with no way to get rid of it without messing up the pretty format of this page. How tragic.

If anyone knows how to format this page so that it appears as I like it *without* the expired chatterbox, please do tell. I shall be most grateful. Most grateful indeed. Leave a comment on one of my entries, email me through xanga, or email me directly at an address you know or by sending a message to "fixchatterbox" at the domain "urchinqueen" period com. I thank ye much.

~M